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In our verse of the day Jesus speaks one of his last promises before ascending into heaven: “Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” That isn’t to say Jesus spoke these words and then ascended into heaven. Matthew doesn’t say that Jesus ascended after speaking these words. Luke actually…

In the Nicene Creed we confess: “We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son.” What does it mean that the Spirit “proceeds” from the Father and the Son? To proceed means to come from or be sent by. Listen to Jesus in John 15, “When the Counselor…

Martin Luther felt like throwing away much of what he wrote. Among the handful of things he wished kept was a book from 1525 called De Servo Arbitrio, “Concerning the Bondage of the Will.” Luther wrote this to answer a European scholar named Erasmus who argued for man’s free will: that we must be able…